Nobody you've ever heard of, NOBODY, was more electrifying or entertaining onstage than Wayne Kramer. An artist and entertainer who gave everything he had.
The tartar field footage is the template for being awesome rock band..should be some kind of law...Wayne Kramer..f#*king legend..I salute you sir..you changed my life and made me a better person...maximum respect
My father toured with the MC5 and I was raised on their music. I feel so fortunate to have gotten to meet them and see them play a couple years ago in Detroit on the MC50 tour. Great fucking show.
I saw the MC5 just after the second album came out. They were at a teen club called The Note near Gun Lake in Michigan. I was 16. They blew that place to pieces. They played a new song called Sister Anne which didn’t come out until two years later when the third album came out. This club hosted every Michigan band that became household names later, when they were just beginning. Detroit rock and roll is THE GREATEST!!!
Still Kicking the Jams : Great Interview, Great Interviewer, Great Interviewed. Wayne Kramer : Intelligent, Articulated, Humble, a Legend... THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, WAYNE !
As someone who worked some of those venues in those times, remembering well too many excesses of the day, Wayne epitomizes my contention that time wounds all heels. We are all better for surviving, experience has beaten our swords into plowshares. Now he is harvesting the seeds sown. There was a time when he led the most exciting live band on earth. I so admired his footwork too, he had some great moves. Thanks Wayne!
I was lucky enough to see MC5 in London at the greyhound in Croydon , I had seen many bands up until that time but when MC5 came to town it was like an explosion , I can remember Fred sonic smith was we reign some weird cape it got caught on the tuners of his guitar and he flipped he took the guitar off and started swinging the guitar around from the cape how it didn’t brain someone I’ll never know , my friends and I were stoned out of our minds laughing it was an insane show and I’ll never forget it ,,I found out later in the seventies meeting other guys in punk bands that they had been there that night and I have a feeling that the start of the punk movement could have been born that night , all we had until then was hippie bands staring at their feet ,,,this was on another level. Thank you Wayne from a 72 year old who feels lucky to have been there
Brother Wayne is right on the money.....a great and influential musician and voice for social justice in this phony drug war and in the war against America's big business of imprisoning people...a prison industrial complex for profit incarceration system, especially against the poor and people of color. Anyway...I digress. The MC5 should be in the rock and roll hall of fame. Wayne Kramer is an American patriot.
The MC5 were like a Fourth of July fireworks display on a stage. Intense! Bruisin'! Light the fuse and run! Thanks, Jim Kerr! Wayne Kramer (legendary!).
Wayne, such a privilege to cross paths at Dickens, always so insightful and kind, wishing you continued success, and thank you for the high octane Rock n’ Roll!
Wayne Kramer is one bad ass guitarist and it is a crying shame he has not received the acclaim he deserves. His solos on "Looking at You'' are absolutely fast, precise, and pedal to the metal relentless.
BaaaaaLOODY HELL!!!!!! This guy (Wayne Kramer ) is an out and out CHAMPION!!!!!!!! WHERE has he BEEN all my life???? Can't believe I am really just discovering him!!!!!
I was there too...granted I was 3, 4, 5 years old, but I was there! Graduated in 83 and I must say, living my teenaged years in the late 70s/early 80s in Detroit was pretty incredible as well.
Wayne Kramer was always an inspiration for me playing the electric guitar since I heard the Kick Out The Jams record for the first time in 1969 ! I think it is still the best live record EVER !!! By the way, I just bought his book on Kindle and can't wait to read it !
Vivienne Westwood slop models aren't the MC5 and no , we don't have to reciprocate. We got rid of you clowns 200+ years ago. Lemmy's Welsh, and lived in LA for decades. So stow it. Malcolm McLaren hyped them but face it, it was a publicity stunt and Westwood's clothing looks like shit.
Great interview with a living legend and influence on generations of guitarists, glad he mentioned the new box set, I just bought it. Right On Brother Wayne.
I remember getting my first copy of "Kick Out The Jams" in 1970, I was 14 that summer and " Ramblin Rose" with " Kick out the Jams" just blew my young mind. I got lucky in that later pressings were censored and the intro KOTJ was beeped, but the original copy had the intro in all its profane glory! Wish I'd gotten to see these guys....
What a great bloke, buyin now ! Wayne was one of many who tried to make the world a better place. Refreshing to hear from somebody with principals - what a sad system.
My tastes have changed over the years but at the time American Ruse was my favorite too. Later Sister Ann was the first song that was no holds barred, no holds barred and that was exactly why I liked it.
Oh, man that would be MAJOR love fest between those two! So much in common between those two, not the least both having been in trouble with the law, they could talk shop for HOURS if they could!
@@patricialambert3110 That's what I always thought first when I recovered Jonsey's jukebox and his radio channel. So sad that Jonsey got stroke not that long ago. I hope he's feeling better now, because it's been a while since it happend
It legitimately does not get anymore AUTHENTIC ROCK & ROLL! Than this! The MC-5 Were the originality of REVOLUTIONARY ROCK & ROLL! BAR-FUKIN-NONE!!! Wtg- WAYNE KRAMER!
From Detroit you had the Amboy Dukes, MC5, Brownsville, BobSeger, The Stooges,we're all that I remember. Until I went to Meeechigan in the mid 70's. While at Meeechigan I listened to Whlz radio and WRIF with Arthur Penthallow.
Remember Robin Seymour? Now that I think of it, he featured a lot of Detroit area bands, the Rationals, the Bob Seger System, Frjid Pink, SRC, the Frost I think were all on his program at one time or another. Gee, whatever happened to Robin Seymour?
Just wish he would shed some light on his relationships with the other past original members, particularly Rob, and Fred. Shame those guys aren’t around to see their band finally being appreciated. RIP Rob, Fred, Mike.
TWO OF THESE GUYS WENT TO MY HIGH SCHOOL IN LINCOLN PARK MICHIGAN, AS WAYNE HAS SAID IN A VIDEO, THE MC5 WAS FORMED IN A BAR PARKING LOT CALLED THE PIONEER IN ON FORT STREET, AFTER ROB, AND ANOTHER MEMBER GOT IN A FIGHT , THIS IS WHAT WAYNE HAS SAID, I REMEMBER SEEING THEM ACROSS THE STREET AT THE BANDSHELL, ROCK ON, COUSIN FIGEL
Not a Wayne Kramer fan but I ended up watching it all and now maybe I am, for many reasons I never thought about before. I emailed myself the link because I plan to watch it at least one more time...
@Sgt. Thundercok what you ona bout Rob tyner was a great front man. He had an excellent voice for the music and he could dance like no other also he had such a cool fro for a white guy. Don't be disrespectful to a great band. It's like saying Jim morrison should not be the singer for the doors?
It was only because they hung out at Vivienne Westwood’s clothes shop, all punks got there clobber from there , the Pistols definitely wasn’t manufactured
There's nothing worse than a misinformed 'expert''. The Sex Pistols were not the kind of band you'd manufacture if your intention was to create a commercial group. They were almost the complete opposite of that.
The first concert i ever went to was in 1972, a big skating rink called Kemp's Coliseum in Orlando. It was billed as a 'Detroit Show' w/opening act Alfred Borg & His Traveling Zoo, 2nd was The MC5 & headlining was Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes. What i remember most that night was when The MC5 came on the whole vibe of the place changed, & there was an actual air of danger & excitement that ran thru the whole audience. They were like The Stones on steroids, & later i realized i probably witnessed one of the earliest Punk shows that night!
I never knew much about the MC5 but have heard about them multiple times. I like "American Ruse". My parents were probably only Kindergarteners when the MC5 started gaining some traction so I'm sure they aren't that familiar either, but it's a crying shame that the Rock n Roll hall of Fame can procrastinate as long as they do about putting artists (Specifically ROCK artists) in the hall where they already belonged. Now the last of them are gone and they just finally might get in. Tbh, they were late to induct them by the time Sonic and Tyner were dead... absolutely unacceptable
I still have that issue of Rolling Stone. That's what turned me on to The 5. Been playing that album ever since. Was lucky enough to catch them accidentally at the Electric Factory. Opening for them...Alice Cooper! That was some night.
Reading his book now,pretty honest look at himself,punctures much of his own youthful pretensions and posturing.Best line in the book,'Revolutionaries dont wear underwear'
HELLO DETROIT PEOPLE, DO YOU REMEMBER, PLUM STREET, THE HIPPIE STORES ECT, BACK THEN IT WAS CALLED THE UNDERGROUND COMMUNITY, R.I.P. TO MR. JOHN SINCLAIR, , COUSIN FIGEL
The MC 5, Suzi Quatro, Motown, Bob Seger, Iggy Pop, Ted Nugent, Glenn Frey, Alice Cooper, & in a, small way, Aretha Franklin, Detroit gave us the greatest artists to ever grace the stage.
